bgfx - Cross-platform rendering library

What is it?

Cross-platform, graphics API agnostic, "Bring Your Own Engine/Framework" style rendering library.

Supported rendering backends:

Direct3D 9
Direct3D 11
Direct3D 12 (WIP)
Metal (WIP)
OpenGL 2.1
OpenGL 3.1+
OpenGL ES 2
OpenGL ES 3.1
WebGL 1.0
WebGL 2.0

Supported HMD:

OculusVR (1.3.0)

Supported platforms:

Android (14+, ARM, x86, MIPS)
asm.js/Emscripten (1.25.0)
FreeBSD
iOS (iPhone, iPad, AppleTV)
Linux
MIPS Creator CI20
OSX (10.9+)
RaspberryPi
SteamLink
Windows (XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10)
WinRT (WinPhone 8.0+)

Supported compilers:

Clang 3.3 and above
GCC 4.6 and above
VS2012 and above

Languages:

Building

AppVeyor https://ci.appveyor.com/project/bkaradzic/bgfx
TravisCI https://travis-ci.org/bkaradzic/bgfx

Who is using it?

Airmech

http://airmech.com/ AirMech is a free-to-play futuristic action real-time strategy video game developed and published by Carbon Games.

cmftStudio

https://github.com/dariomanesku/cmftStudio cmftStudio - cubemap filtering tool.

Crown

https://github.com/dbartolini/crown Crown is a general purpose data-driven game engine, written from scratch with a minimalistic and data-oriented design philosophy in mind.

Offroad Legends 2

http://www.dogbytegames.com/ Dogbyte Games is an indie mobile developer studio focusing on racing games.

Torque6

https://github.com/andr3wmac/Torque6 Torque 6 is an MIT licensed 3D engine loosely based on Torque2D. Being neither Torque2D or Torque3D it is the 6th derivative of the original Torque Engine.

twinkle

https://github.com/cgbystrom/twinkle GPU-accelerated UI framework powered by JavaScript for desktop/mobile apps. Idea is to combine the fast workflow and deployment model of web with the performance of native code and GPU acceleration.

Lumix Engine

https://github.com/nem0/LumixEngine LumixEngine is a MIT licensed 3D engine. The main goal is performance and Unity-like usability.

Kepler Orbits

https://github.com/podgorskiy/KeplerOrbits KeplerOrbits - Tool that calculates positions of celestial bodies using their orbital elements. Web Demo

CETech

https://github.com/cyberegoorg/cetech - CETech is Data-Driven game engine and toolbox inspired by Bitsquid/Stingray engine.

ioquake3

https://github.com/jpcy/ioq3-renderer-bgfx - A renderer for ioquake3 written in C++ and using bgfx to support multiple rendering APIs.

DLS

http://makingartstudios.itch.io/dls - DLS the digital logic simulator game.

http://dls.makingartstudios.com/sandbox/ - DLS: The Sandbox

MAME

https://github.com/mamedev/mame MAME - Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator Try MAME in Browser!

Blackshift

https://blackshift.itch.io/blackshift - Blackshift is a grid-based, space-themed action puzzle game which isn't afraid of complexity — think Chip's Challenge on crack.

Real-Time Polygonal-Light Shading with Linearly Transformed Cosines

https://eheitzresearch.wordpress.com/415-2/ - Real-Time Polygonal-Light Shading with Linearly Transformed Cosines, Eric Heitz, Jonathan Dupuy, Stephen Hill and David Neubelt, ACM SIGGRAPH 2016

Dead Venture

http://www.dogbytegames.com/dead_venture.html - Dead Venture is a new Drive 'N Gun game where you help a handful of survivals reach the safe haven: a military base on a far island.

REGoth

https://github.com/degenerated1123/REGoth - Open source reimplementation of the zEngine, used by the game "Gothic" and "Gothic II".

Browser demo: http://gothic-dx11.de/gothic-js/REGoth.html

Ethereal Engine

https://github.com/volcoma/EtherealEngine EtherealEngine C++ Game Engine and WYSIWYG Editor

Go Rally

http://gorallygame.com/ - Go Rally is top-down rally game with a career mode, multiplayer time challenges, and a track creator.

Fiber2D

https://github.com/s1ddok/Fiber2D#fiber2d - Fiber2D - Cross-platform 2D Game Engine in pure Swift

On the Hunt

http://www.indiedb.com/games/on-the-hunt - On the Hunt is an open world hunting game in development. It's a combination of FPS and stealth.

FbxPipeline

https://github.com/VladSerhiienko/FbxPipeline - Yet another FBX exporter with flatbuffers serialization.

FRAG - Framework for Rather Awesome Games

http://fragworks.io/ - FRAG is a cross-platform 2D game creation framework for the Nim programming language.

vg-renderer

https://github.com/jdryg/vg-renderer#vg-renderer - A vector graphics renderer for bgfx, based on ideas from both NanoVG and ImDrawList (Dear ImGUI)

Zombie Safari

http://www.dogbytegames.com/zombie_safari.html - Do what you please in this Open-World Offroad Driving game: explore massive landscapes, complete challenges, smash zombies, find secret locations, unlock and upgrade cars and weapons, it's up to you!

Smith and Winston

http://www.smithandwinston.com/ - Smith and Winston is an exploration twin stick shooter for PC, PS4 & XBoxOne arriving in late 2018. Smith and Winston features a massively destructable voxel world, rapid twin stick combat, physics puzzles and Metroid style discovery.

License (BSD 2-clause)

Copyright 2010-2017 Branimir Karadzic. All rights reserved.

https://github.com/bkaradzic/bgfx

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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